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On 8/21/06, robert engels <rengels@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> Then keeping the segments in memory is not helpful, as every open of
> the writer needs to traverse the directory (since another writer
> still could have created segments).
>
> For example,
>
> Computer A opens writer, modifies index, closes writer.
> Computer B opens writer (this must read the directory)....
>
> No reason to keep the filename/segment infos around...
New segments are created and segments are deleted (or deletion is
attempted) every merge, which there can be a large number of during
the life of a single IndexWriter, hence it could be very beneficial to
keep this stuff in memory.
-Yonik
http://incubator.apache.org/solr Solr, the open-source Lucene search server
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